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  1. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ Living to Tell the Tale

    That was the state of the world when I began to be aware of my family environment, and I cannot evoke it in any other way: sorrows, griefs, uncertainties in the solitude of an immense house.
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  2. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ Living to Tell the Tale

    My heart in an uproar.
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  3. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ Living to Tell the Tale

    She was the only person in the house, of either sex, who did not seem to have a heart pierced by the sorrow of thwarted love.
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  4. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ Living to Tell the Tale

    Dawns in the dormitory had a suspicious resemblance to happiness.
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  5. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ Living to Tell the Tale

    Escaped the torments of memory with the aromatic fumes of gold cyanide
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  6. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ Living to Tell the Tale

    Until I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.
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  7. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ Living to Tell the Tale

    For years it seemed to me that this period had become a recurrent nightmare that I had almost every night, because I would wake in the morning feeling the same terror I had felt in the room with the saint. During my adolescence, when I was a student at an icy boarding school in the Andes, I would wake up crying in the middle of the night. I needed old age without remorse to understand that the misfortune of my grandparents in the house in Catasa was that they were always mired in their nostalgic memories, and the more they insisted on conjuring them, the deper they sank.
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  8. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ Living to Tell the Tale

    Each thing, just by looking at it, aroused in me an irresistible longing to write so I would not die. I had suffered this on other occasions, but only on that morning did I recognize it as a crisis of inspiration, that word, abominable but so real, that demolishes everything in its path in order to reach its ashes in time.
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  9. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ Living to Tell the Tale

    The colonel, pursued by sinister remorse for having killed a man in an affair of honor, brought everything necessary for recreating the past as far away as possible from his bad memories
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  10. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ Living to Tell the Tale

    The move to Arcata was seen by my grandparents as a journey into forgetting.
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  11. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ Living to Tell the Tale

    ...Macondo Esta palabra me había llamado la atención desde los primeros viajes con mi abuelo, pero sólo de adulto descubrí que me gustaba su resonancia poética.
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  12. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ Living to Tell the Tale

    But in the days that followed I realized he was only what he seemed: a giant baby with a heart too big for his body.
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